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Definitions for Dredge

[1] Also called dredging machine. any of various powerful machines for dredging up or removing earth, as from the bottom of a river, by means of a scoop, a series of buckets, a suction pipe, or the like.
[2] a barge on which such a machine is mounted.
[3] a dragnet or other contrivance for gathering material or objects from the bottom of a river, bay, etc.
[4] to clear out with a dredge; remove sand, silt, mud, etc., from the bottom of.
[5] to take, catch, or gather with a dredge; obtain or remove by a dredge.
[6] to use a dredge.
[7] dredge up , to unearth or bring to notice: We dredged up some old toys from the bottom of the trunk. to locate and reveal by painstaking investigation or search: Biographers excel at dredging up little known facts.
[8] to sprinkle or coat with some powdered substance, especially flour.
[9] Also called: dredger a machine, in the form of a bucket ladder, grab, or suction device, used to remove material from a riverbed, channel, etc
[10] another name for dredger 1 (def. 1)
[11] to remove (material) from a riverbed, channel, etc, by means of a dredge
[12] (tr) to search for (a submerged object) with or as if with a dredge; drag
[13] to sprinkle or coat (food) with flour, sugar, etc

Words related to Dredge

widen, clean, unearth, raise

Words nearby Dredge

drear, dreary, dreck, drecksill, dred scott decision, dredge, dredge up, dredger, dredging machine, dree, dreg

Origin of Dredge

21590–1600; v. use of dredge (now obsolete or dial.) mixture of grains, late Middle English dragge, dregge, apparently to be identified with Middle English drag(g)e, dragie (disyllabic) sweetmeat, confection < Anglo-French drag(g)é, dragee, Old French (see dragée); compare similar dual sense of Medieval Latin dragētum, dragium

Word origin for Dredge

C16: from Old French dragie, perhaps from Latin tragēmata spices, from Greek

Synonyms for Dredge

clean, widen, raise, unearth, bring up, dig up